Jimia Boutouba

Jimia Boutouba

Biographical Information

Jimia Boutouba is a Professor of French & Francophone Studies, specializing in 20th and 21st century French & Francophone literature and cinema, and in 19th century colonial discourse. Bridging national and disciplinary boundaries, her scholarship explores the way minority writers, filmmakers, artists and thinkers challenge the conceptions of belonging and distance, Self and Other, citizens and migrants, to disseminate potential alternatives to current culture clashes, exclusion and rejection. Located at the intersection of literature, film studies, history and politics, her work enacts new modes of inquiry and interpretation that take into account transnational and transhistorical connections and trajectories. Her most recent publications include “The Indochina War Syndrome: Transimperial Displacement and Trauma,” 2024; Droit de Cité: l’Autre en démocratie ou la bataille pour l’égaliberté, 2022; “Française, Algérienne, Musulmane et Lesbienne: Naissance d’une subjectivité politique chez Fatima Daas,” 2022; “Screen Memories & Invisible Legacies: The “Chaâba” Revisited,” 2021; Genre, Sexualité et Politique dans le Monde Francophone, 2020.

Awards

She has been the recipient of the Award for Excellence in Teaching (USC), the Ahmanson Foundation Fellowship, the Josephine De Karman Fellowship (USC), and the Tournées Film Festival Grant from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

Research Interests

• Postcolonial cultures: literature and cinema in The Maghreb, Africa and the Caribbean
• Postcolonial France: Minority discourses, National identity, the representation of the social Other (immigrants and their descendants) in modern French cinema
• 20th/ / 21st century French literature and culture
• Orientalism, 19th century travel literature
• Postcolonial Theory, Feminist theory and Transnational Cinema

• FREN 173: Race, Immigration & Identity in France;
• FREN 175: Transnational Cinema;
• FREN114: Literatures & Cultures of the Maghreb;
• FREN 110: Contemporary France: Society, Politics & Cultures;
• FREN 100: Introduction to French and Francophone Studies;
• FREN 106: Oral Communication in French

• “The Indochina War Syndrome: Transimperial Displacement and Trauma,” 2024.
  
• Droit de Cité: l’Autre en démocratie ou la bataille pour l’égaliberté, 2022.
  
  
• “Française, Algérienne, Musulmane et Lesbienne: Naissance d’une subjectivité politique chez Fatima Daas,” 2022.
  
  
• “Screen Memories & Invisible Legacies: The “Chaâba” Revisited,” 2021.
  
• Genre, Sexualité et Politique dans le Monde Francophone, 2020.
  
  
• “Ancres invisibles,” Expressions Maghrébines. 13:1 (Summer 2014): 129-144.

• “The Mudawana Syndrome: Gender Trouble in Contemporary Morocco,” Research in African Literatures. 45:1 (Winter 2014): 24-38.

• “Rupturing Otherness, Fashioning the Self: The Aesthetics and Politics of Self- Transformation in Sakinna Boukhedenna’s Journal Nationalité: Immigré(e),” French Cultural Studies. 24:4 (November 2013): 441-448.

• “Les Enfants de l’ombre: Dalila Kerchouche. Leila: Avoir dix-ans dans un camp de harkis,” Expressions Maghrébines. 12:2 (Winter 2013): 28-38.

• “Femmes d’images et images de femmes: Parcours féminins et culture visuelle au Maghreb.” Nouvelles Etudes Francophones. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 27:1 (Spring 2012): 145-162.

• “Maux par mots: ou comment penser les blessures de l’Histoire,” Revue Etudes Francophones, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. V24: 1&2 (Fall 2009): 47-59.

• “La République des Lettres: Ses écrivains, ses critiques, ses limites,” Revue du Gerflint: Synergies Monde Arabe, ISSN:1766-2796. V4 (2007). 149-159.